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8 | Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There More Than Just Genetics?

There's more to how we pass information down. There's the whole story of epigenetics and so forth. We could have an experience that alters how our jeans work, and that alteration can get passed down to future generations. When you get to mice, thereare some very tantalizing experiments. You know, one experiment where scientists would expose male mice to a certain odor and then give them a shock. They learned to associate the odor with the shock. And it seems like the next generation kind of responded oddly to that same odor.

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